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What led to the post-World War II economic boom in the United States?
more jobs, baby boom, cheap appliances and gas, government expansion
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What was part of the Bretton Woods system?
International Monetary Fund (IMF) was established to regulate and stabilize international currency exchange rates and thus to encourage world trade
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When Eisenhower said, “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes,” he was referring to the
Military-industrial complex
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The “space race” began when
Sputnik was launched by SU 1957
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The predominant thrust in corporate life during the twenty years following World War II was
the consolidation of economic power into big corporate firms
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One of the most rapidly growing job categories in America during the 1950s was
white-collar managers
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Michael Harrington's The Other America exposed
problems dealing with poverty
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The GI Bill stimulated the American economy by
providing education, medical care, pensions, and mortgage loans to veterans.
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The Treaty of Detroit, creating a broadly based “labor-management accord,” was based on
collective bargaining
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The great resurgence of evangelical religion in 1950s' America was most evident in the dramatic rise to popularity of
televangelists
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A negative aspect of America's fascination with the automobile in the 1950s was
urban sprawl
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An unexpected result of building the interstate highway system was that it
gave money back to the state
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Beginning in the 1960s, the influx of Cuban refugees rapidly changed the character of
Miami
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The baby boom in post-World War II America is most accurately explained as resulting from
a drop in age at marriage
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Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique
sparked second wave feminism
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According to the textbook, the twentieth century social movement with the greatest overall impact was the
Civil Rights movement
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In what way did the black-led civil rights movement redefine the meaning of liberalism?
By demanding state protecting for individuals against discrimination
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In 1941, President Roosevelt issued an executive order banning racial discrimination in defense industries primarily because
the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters agreed to cancel a protest march on Washington if he issued the order
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The philosophy of nonviolent disobedience was first espoused by
Ghandi
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Furious with the national Democratic Party's endorsement of civil rights goals in its 1948 platform, southern Democrats set up the States' Rights (or Dixiecrat) Party and nominated which of the following for president?
Strom Thurmond
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What effect did the cold war have on the civil rights movement?
Constrained the Civil Rights movement
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Many historians consider the most important event in the emergence of the Mexican American civil rights movement to be
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Who became the first African American justice on the Supreme Court in the late 1960s?
Thurgood Marshall
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In Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled against segregated schools on the grounds that they
were not "separate and equal"
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The Southern Manifesto
denounced the Brown decision as "a clear abuse of judicial power" and encouraged local officials to defy it
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In promoting civil rights, President Eisenhower
sent troops to Little Rock, Ar.
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